Whether you like it or not...

Unknown precipitation falling right now

It is slippery, whatever it might be.

Commercial commentary

Sunita Deshpande = Jo Taylor
Craig Rowin = Brad Fitz-Sternman
me = Marcus Gladwell

editing and all technical stuff by Craig Rowin

more to come

Know this:

Sometimes you come across some small bit of information that, while it doesn't have any immediate impact, sort of sits there in the back of your mind. One of those facts that subtly inflects your world view. Perhaps a new fork in the road opens at some later point. Perhaps not.

Facts such as: a quart of wolf urine can be delivered to your home within 24 hours.

eagle boiler

I took this outside a restaurant just off 23rd that serves up a pretty decent boiled eagle. Or did, anyway -- before their eagle boiler went on the fritz.

car shaking

Man, those Polish dudes love a good prank.



update: I can't read the comments on this one, because they're all in Polish, but things like "polskie świnie !!" and "ale chała...co to za parówy?!" -- combined with with monostar rating -- give me the impression they're not pleased. Maybe the guy in the video is some kind of national hero or is dead or something. By the way, that video hit the top 100 most viewed videos on YouTube (in the comedy category) that week I posted it.

But the Japanese (and general boobs enthusiasts) seem to have taken to this project a lot more enthusiastically.

"subtitling" project

Here's a stupid-ass project I thought up: find the most popular foreign language clips on YouTube, add subtitles, and re-post them as "SUBTITLED". The idea is mainly to confuse people.

T-shirt idea

Hitler alerts!

It seems CNN is offering e-mail alerts on somc current news topics.
I don't know about you, but I was having a lot of trouble keeping on top of all this fast-breaking Hitler news.

the future of air travel

... is going to be very awkward.

Bob Ayers, an associate fellow at Chatham House in London and vice president for homeland security for Selex Sensors & Airborne Systems of Italy, an arm of Finmeccanica SpA, said that "the best and optimal way to make sure no one carries something dangerous onto a plane is to make people fly naked and with no baggage."

(emphasis added)